Manifolding device



Sept- 18 1951 w. R. MooRE v 2,568,509

MANIFOLDING DEVICE 4Filed Feb. 26, 1948 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENToR. WALT ER R. M 00 R E gaaf@ ATTO RNEY Sept. 18, 1951 w. R. MOORE MANIFOLDING DEVICE 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 26, 1948 SePt- 18, 1951 w. R. MOORE 2,568,509

MANIFOLDING DEVICE INVENTOR. WALTER R. MO0RE ATTRNEY Sept. 18, 1951 w. R. MOORE MANIFOLDING DEVICE 21 sheetssheet 4 Filed Feb. 26, 1948 INVENTOR. g WALTER R. Man/2E Patented Sept. 18, 1951 UNITED MANIFOLDING DEVICE Walter R. Moore, Palmyra, N. J., assignor to Underwood Corporation, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application February 26, 1948, Serial No. 11,160

3 Claims. (Cl. 282-3) This invention relates to carbon sheet holders or carriers for supporting one or more sheets of carbon paper while they are being used in a typewriting machine in manifolding work.

The invention is particularly intended for application to carbon carriers of the type illustrated and described in the patent to Crews No. 1,565,- 550, dated December 15, 1925, and the patent to Kerr No. 2,270,733, dated January 20, 1942, in which the carbon carrier is constructed for use in typing continuous forms which are threaded through and guided by the carrier as they are typed.

In the typing of continuous forms, the forms are usually of standard width and are guided upon both edges by guides formed on or carried by the carbon carrier.

It is often desirable to include, in the set of forms which is being typed, one or more continuous forms which are of less width thanthe standard forms which make up the remainder of the set. With the carbon carriers which have heretofore been produced, considerable difficulty has been encountered because the relatively narrow forms could not be accurately positioned and Y guided during the typing operations. One of these narrower forms may be guided along one edge by the regular guiding devices of the carbon carrier, but when the opposite edge is unguided, the form is often displaced laterally in one direction from its normal position. It may be desirable to locate the narrower forms with relation to the carrier so that neither of the edges of a form is guided by the guiding devices heretofore provided on the carrier. When located in such a position, the form may be displaced laterally in either direction and the tendency for the form to be displaced during typing operations is greatly increased.

One object of the presentinvention is to improve the construction and mode of operation of carbon carriers of the type referred to above and to produce a carbon carrier of this type in which simple and eiiicient means is provided forV guiding the edges of continuous forms which are narrower than the standard forms@- In the operation of manifolding devices of this type, it is frequentlydesirable to block outl cern, tain parts of the typewritten matter on certain `j of the carbon copies. Also, it is often desirable to be able to attach a protective sheet or a backing sheet to the carrier. l

Another object or" the invention is to produce a carbon carrier construction in which one or more block-out strips or sheets maybe readily at` tached to the carrier so as respectively to undi'- lie one or more of the carbon sheets and thereby prevent the transfer of certain parts of the typewritten matter upon the underlying work sheets.

Another object of the invention is to produce a carbon carrier construction in which certain supplementary sheets, such as a protective sheet or a backing sheet, may be readily attached to the carrier.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in a carbon carrier embodying the novel and improved constructions, arrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims, the advantages of Which will be readily understood and appreciated by those skilled in the art.

The various features of the invention will be clearly understood from the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention in its preferred forms and the following detailed description of the constructions therein shown.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view as the parts would appear when laid out upon a suitable horizontal support with the carbonized sides of the carbon sheets facing upwardly, this view illustrating the carrier sheet and associated parts and a series of forms applied in operative relation to the carrier sheet,

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a different application of certain features of the invention,

l in Fig. 5,

Fig. 8 is a sectional View taken substantially on the line 8-8 of Fig. 7 and on a larger scale,

Fig. 9 is a detail perspective view illustrating a crossbar constituting one of the features of the invention and certain associated parts,

Fig. 10 is a detail sectional view taken substantially on the line Ill-lil of Fig. 9,

Fig. 11 is a view similar to Fig. 10 illustrating certain of the parts in diiferent positions,

Fig. `12 is a detail sectional View taken substantially on the line |2-|2 of Fig. 3,

illustrated and described in the patent to CrewsU No. 1,565,550 and the patent to Kerr No.,

2,270,733, referred to above. comprises a carrier sheet, indicatedat 2, arranged to ride on the worlfrfxjebA ncohtinuous series of forms to be typed, to which carrier sheet is attached a series or transfer sheets,

The carrier sheet is substantiallyrectangularir outline and consists of a sheet of flexible relatively heavy paper or similar material having sufficient stifrnessto maintain its shape laterallyY vand `to *sup'p'ortthe'` carbon sheets laterally" against wrinkling andi'crea'sing." The carrier sheet, of coursemust be -of the' 'proper' limited width and have suiiicient ilexibility to pass 'ab'foiit thev cylindrical -platen "of ai typewriting' machine between the same and the'paper` table or otherl work engaging VV'devices Vopposed to the platen.

Figspland 3 show onlythe porti'or'ofitheoarrier between the trailing end and the"point at which"the carbonsh'eets are "attachedp while Figs.l 5,V 6,' 7 'and'8 show the complete carrier and 'the carbonsheets'attached tomthe leading portion o thecarrir.

In the prese'ntconstruction, the carriersheet is provided with` trahsvrsqefslats, indicated at d, mand 4b,"produ'ced by 'forming the carrier sheet with a relatively widewtransverse slot 5 and with relativelymnarrdw transverse slots 6, To' each ofthe slats 4, dfandndbis attached a carbonsheet, indicated atti, arranged to extend from thecarrier Ysheet 2 A in a direction awayV from the body of'A the carrier sheet,V as clearly shown in Figs. 5 to 8, inclusive. The carrier sheet is formed with. a transverse cutout or slot, indicated at I'iipthroughl which the work sheets are threaded.

In order to limit the movement of the carbon carrier between the platen -of a typewriting machine and the opposed work web engaging devices, the carrier sheet 2 isyprovided Withthe stop blocks, indicated at 52 attachedto-opposite" side margins of the sheet. These stop .blocks have the same mode of operation as` the stop blocks on the carrier illustrated and described in vthe copendingi `application oi Bernard E. Schaefer, Serial No. 558,502, iiled'Oct. 13, 1944, patented on February 7,1950, number 2,496,600. These stop blocks are detachably mounted upon the carrier sheet so that, when the carbon'car'- rier is worn out, its carbon sheets being exhausted, the stop blocks may be detached and applied to another carrier.

The stop blocks are mounted upon the carrier sheet so that they extend some distance from the face of the sheet along which the work websV pass and are spaced from each other by a dis"-y tance which, in the construction shown/is substantially greater than the width of the workwebs which pass between the blocks. The blocks, however, may be spaced from each other substantially the same as or very slightly greater than the width of the work webs'so that they constitute guides for the side edges of the 'work The carboncarrier slot I4,` after which thehblock may be moved 4 r the carrier. Each of the stop blocks is detachably mounted in a suitable slot in a side marginal portion of the carrier 2.

The stop blocks are in the form of rectangular prisms and are mounted on the carrier with their greatest dimensions respectively substantially parallel with the side edges of the carrier. Each stop block is mounted in a slot i4 in the carrier sheet. The block is formed with a cleft I6 to receive the marginal portion I8 of the carrier sheet between the slot and the adjacent end portion of the sheet. In order to hold the Vstop blockin the slot, the carrier is formed with Vaproje'ction 2i] arranged to engage in a recess Q groove `22, formed in the inner end of the block..

In applying the stop block to the carrier sheet,4 the block vismanipulated to engage the portion* t3 of the sheet in the cleft I6, and the inner end of the block is then moved transverselyroi" the carrier sheet until therblol; is located',substantially in theposition shown in Figs'. 12 and I4. During this'operatiomthe projection'Z'is bent aside and, when the block is finallyl located, the projection engagesin the recess 22to hold the block position.

rlhe stop block may be readilyA removed fromv the carrier sheet by moving the inner end of the block in a direction transverse tothe plane of thev sheet therebyy removing said end from; the

longitudinally to'vdislengage the portion I8 of the sheet from the cleft' l6.` In the iirst partof,

this operation, the projectionY 2i) is bentaside to"allow'the inn r end of the block to be removed from the slot.

With this construction, the stop blocks |2limit,

the movement of thecarbon carrier between the platen and the paper tableof the typewriting machine and maybe arranged to constitute guides for the side marginsof the work webs. As shown in Figs. 1,7 3, 5 and 7, the work webs or forms all pass from above the trailing` end of the carrier,

uponwhich vthe stop blocks are mounted, between said lblocks and then down through the slot lil. The Work web 24 then passes upwardly through therslot 5 and extends over the carbonsheet 8.. attached tothe slat 4. The next worklweb 24a, extends upwardly through the slot S vand under the carbon sheet 8 attached to the slat .4a. 'I'he third work web 24h extends upwardly .through the` .also show the manner in which the WorkY Webs are threaded through the carrier and between thev Y carbon sheets.

In the operation of thedevice above described, the continuous forms or Work websare threaded f through the carbon carrier in interleaved relation to theicarbon sheets and the assembly of carbon carrier, carbon sheets and Work webs is introduced between the cylindricalv platen and the paperl table 'and feed 'rolls' o'f a typewriting machine.

The said assembly is then positioned in the usual manner' forwriting upon thevflrs't form. At the conclusion of the typing` operation, the assemblyV is' advanced until the stop blocks VI2 engage the vpla .ten,thereby locking the carbon carrier from iffurther advance movement.

The feedrolls are then positioned to release the assembly, the forward ends of the Work webs are grasped by the operator and the webs are drawn forward with` webs which engage the same in passing along id relationto the carbon carrier until a new or blank `set of rforms 'is introduced into typing position with relation to the carrier and the carbon sheets. The typed set of forms may then be severed from the assembly along the weakened lines with which the forms are usually provided, after which the feed rolls are restored to pressure position with relation to the platen and the assembly is backfed to place the next set of forms in typing position.

The work Webs 24 and 24e are one of the standard widths. The Work web 24c is guided by the engagement of its opposite edges with the ends of the slot III and the corresponding ends of the slot 5. The Work web 24 is guided by the engagement of its opposite edges with the ends of the slot I0.

In the setup shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the work webs 24a and 24h are narrower than the standard widths, and an especial provision is made for guiding one edge of each of these webs. To this end a transverse supporting bar 26 is mounted at its ends upon the stop blocks I2 and is arranged to support guides for one margin of each of these work webs. The bar 26 preferably consists of a strip of material which is relatively flexible in directions transverse to the normal plane thereof and highly resilient, such as spring steel. This bar is provided, at its ends, with relatively narrow projections 2l having rounded ends which loosely engage respectively in recesses 28 formed in the blocks I2 to support the bar in a position substantially parallel with the carrier 2 in spaced relation to the carrier. As shown in Fig. 2. in this setup, the work webs 24 and 24a pass over the bar 26 while the work Webs 24h and 24e pass under said bar. As shown in Fig. 1, the left-hand edge of the work web 24a is in registration with the corresponding edges of the forms 24 and 24e and is guided by its engagement with the corre-- spending ends of the slots IIJ and 6. In order to position and guide the right-hand margin of the work web 24a, a guide hook 36 is mounted on the bar 26 on the upper side thereof for adjustment longitudinally of the bar and widthwise of the carrier. The guide hook 3l] preferably consists of a section of sheet metal folded upon itself. to form a loop to receive the edge of the Work web. This guide is supported upon a carrier 32 also preferably formed of sheet metal and shaped to embrace the bar 26, as shown in Figs. and 11. The carrier 32 and the guide 30 are preferably formed integrally from a single piece of sheet metal. The carrier 32 is fixed to the bar 26 by means of an eccentric rocker 34 mounted to turn in a loop 36 in the carrier forming a bearing for the rocker to which rocker are fixed operating arms 38 passing outwardly through openings 40 in the carrier. The rocker 34 is provided with a flat face 35 which is positioned in engagement with the opposed flat face of the bar 26 by a manipulation of one of the arms 38 to free the carrier for movement longitudinally of the bar.

vTo fix the carrier to the bar, the rocker 34 is turned to a position such as that shown in Fig. 11 in which a portion of the rocker farther from the axis of the same than the flat facethereof is `of the Work web 24h is guided by its engagement on the lower side of the bar 26 with the hook thereof in the reverse position, as compared with the corresponding guide hook for the work web 24a. The guide hook for the work web 2419 is mounted on a carrier 32 adjustable longitudinally of the bar 2B, and the carrier is secured in adjusted position on the bar by means of an eccentric rocker 34 mounted in a bearing on the carrier and having operating arms 38.

The bar 26 is constructed to accommodate several guides for the edges of work webs, and where one edge of a Work web is aligned with the standard Work webs 24 and 24o, the other edge of each web will be eiciently guided by the corresponding guide 30.

Figs. 3 `and 4 show an arrangement of guides for guiding a Work web which is narrower than the standard webs and in which neither of the edges of the narrower web is aligned with an edge of a standard web. In this case, also, the work webs 24 and 24a pass above the bar 26 and the webs 24h and 24e pass below said bar. As shown in these figures, the work webs 24, 24h and 24e are all of standard widths, while the width of the Work web 24a, is considerably less than the standard Width. Also, the edges of the work web 24d are both out of alignment of the corresponding edges respectively of the work webs 24, 24h and 240. In order to position and guide the opposite edges of the work web 24a, guides 33 are mounted upon the upper side of the supporting bar 26. Each of these guides is supported upon a carrier 32 mounted for adjustment longitudinally on the bar 26 and provided with an eccentric clamping device such as that above described for securing the carrier in adjusted position on the bar. The hooks of the guides 30 face in opposite directions so as to receive the opposite margins of the Work web 24a, as shown in Fig. 4.

By means of the guiding devices, carried by the bar 26, the continuous Work strips or forms having widths less than the standard width are accurately positioned laterally with relation to the other strips and are guided eiloiently during the pulling of the strips through the carrier.

While the original form is being typed and copies of the typewritten matter are being made on the forms beneath the carbon sheets, it is often desirable to prevent the copying of a part of the typewritten matter on one or more of the forms. To enable this result to be obtained, provision is made for supporting one or more blocking-out strips or sheets upon the bar so that they will extend between one or more of the carbon sheets and the underlying worlr sheets or strips, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. In this case, as in the setups shown in Figs. l and 2 and in Figs. 3 and 4, the work webs 24 and 24a. pass above the bar 26, and the webs 24h and 24e pass below said bar.

In the present construction, the devices for supporting a blocking-out strip comprise a carrier 42 having substantially the same construction as the carrier 32 and mounted in substantially the same manner upon the bar 2E for adjustment longitudinally of the bar. The carrier is arranged to be clamped upon the bar by means of an eccentric rocker 44 mounted in the carrier and having operating arms 46, these devices having substantially the same construction and mode of operation as the corresponding devices for these gres, 'th'epaper clamp fis'nforrnedV Afrom relatively lstii sheet'ina'terial; such asfsheet metal, Vand the paper `clamping portion, indicated jat jr2 VFigs. 6 and 9, is bentina L! shapeand arranged `to embraceor'ie marginal fp ortion of the harfZG.

4In the operatingfoi theA paper holdingfdevioes,

"above described, hefoiethe paper :b loclzolitistrip Vof two clamping devices arranged at opposite "sides-of the'strip: This'strip which Yis relatively narrow as :compared jW'ith the co ntir'lu'oiis "f'formsfextends frointhe bar v2t'between the forms 24a 'and 2412 and between the formf'fia and-'the carbon sheet`8 attachedtothe Slat 'da of the car- "rien This strip Will preyent't'he copying upon aform 24a of allthe v'type'Written 'matter which falvls between the two side marginsfofr the strip, provided thatthestripextends lfor the'full length o`i the carbon sheet ,8 attached"tol "the 'Slat Qta. i'I-`he"s`trip5li may be terminatedfshortgof the leading edge of the carbon'sheet "S attached `to the "s1at`4a. -In thateventgoi. colirse, the typewritten -matter will bebl'ocked'oi1t-orilyf`for aart of the lengthof said vcarboncorre"spoiidirig to the length 3 lof the block-out strip.v K y V l `ltis1'ftenfdesiraloiejto'iooate a protective 'strip lor sheet between theo'uter ororig aalfwork'sheet '2te and the @erben [Sheet gatta-*gne "te 'che ksiegt fb Yto forma vhad tojprotect'the iirst 'carbon sheet '8 from L'the repeated blows 'toi the type.` Figs. '7 fand 8 :show :applicatonf''f the paper holding= devices shownfin Figs'. `5 and "6 which Vth'ese devices are remployed to lattafh "siic'h 'protective sheettolthe harzG. Ishc'iwn if hess figures, fthe protective sheet, 'i vlic'ajtirl a is secured iat one end to the bari@ 'byfeansof two 'L "ing devices 5%, 'each `pivotedrijpen 'adcaiiier i2 slidably supported uponthe foar :and held in lplace by a suitalo'lefholding 'device The eldV por- :tio'nfof the protectiveV sheet i eng' eed by the elamping 'devices is coneideraeiy na "the body of said "sheet, vlas 'shown in* .V 'protective sheet extends beneath tie erigir work strip 24o and 'forms a cdshionvhen-th'e parts are Wrapped around thevpliaten'to y'p ifotect the rst carbon sheet "8 against repeated blows of the type which often out or Ainjure 'quickly this carbon. Y The engagement 'of thenrjimded 'projections 2 on the endso the'barloosely Vi "rnil'arly shaped recesses inthe stop hlocksfi 'ichhrefl erably are somewhat Wider ithan. efthickness of the bar, enablesl the stop blocksfto be in'- `stall`ed `Withot regard to 2perfect angular posi- Honing. These eonr'iectio'ns bet'wgeenlthebar'and the sten blocks varliow "a" great 'deal 0iA 'freedom 'ofmotion tothe bar',v This or 'moiinti'ng 'the har together With the "illexibilltyfof the hair av ds the catching f` theedfs of the perforavtions*intheWork` Webs [ontlre har, A

'rire-bar 2f@ fnayne-bijoyided'wnh a seaialsucjii "asignar-indicarme at et my 1g. atq'sist the operata Yim 'locating the jgaes or stamping Y d- "(ices Drede'tr'ri'd positions 4on 4the bar.

carrier `shi-,et "by iin ve toeziend beneath' fallithe Work'webs 2a," tra,

tion"fvatfon'ey ofthehj y vcesses 28 'inja stop "block, 'andV then be widths of paper strips or sheets, iiij'p'os the har to locate the sheets oru'stivipsdh `i/'a-ricnis 'o Ayhstranfsyers'elyof ythe carrier. .i ve 'naper'larnpsfa'rid Danerfguides may. yhe

Iti's toflfeiiride'rstoodthat, egeptasfd'ened in the /clair'nsyythe vin'v eritioh Yis not liinited tonthe particular ohstruotiorrfand arrangement-vof parts lof `the` 'illustrated embodiments ofy the-linyerition, buttha'tth'e ihven'tilonniay'he einbodiedin other `forrns With'inth'scopegof theviaizns@ U Hviflg xblaidhamture andobiectio-f-4 the invention, and having specifically described V.c011- striitiorisembodyingthe several features; of the invention in .their preferred. forms, what :is caimedis:

\1'. A manifolding devicercomprsingfa, carrier formedofexible sheet 'materiaLoneor more car'- bonfsheets attached to said 'carrier-a stoplrblock on said carrier adjacent eachlateral edge thereof, a bar extending across said carrier and-'detachably connected at its endsto said 'stop blocks, apair of members slidablyamounted Aon said bar, each; of said members'having a portion formedto provide a guide for an edge :of .a worksheet, and meansforloclgng said members to saidfbarat ay desired positions -therealong- 2. A manifoiding device comprising a carrier formed of flexible sheet material, one or more carbon sheets attached to said carrier, a stop block mounted on said carrier adjacent each lateral edge thereof, a bar extending across said carrier and detachably connected at its ends to said stop blocks, a guide member having a portion slidably embracing said bar and a portion formed to provide a retaining recess to slidably embrace an edge of a continuous work form, and means for locking said guide member to said bar at any desired position therealong.

3. A manifoldng device comprising a carrier formed of exible sheet material, one or more carbon sheets attached -to said carrier, a stop block mounted on said carrier adjacent each lateral edge thereof, a iiat bar extending across said carrier and connected at its ends to said stop blocks in such manner that lthe wider dimension of said bar lies in a plane parallel to the plane of the carrier and spaced therefrom suciently to permit several parts of a set of continuous forms to pass between the bar and the carrier,

a pair of members slidably mounted on said bar, each of said members having means for locking same to said bar at any desired position therealong, and each `of said members having a portion formed to provide a retaining recess for an edge of a continuous work form.

WALTER R. MOORE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,052,012 Purdy Feb. 4, 1913 1,594,785 Lindburg Aug. 3, 1926 2,270,733 Kerr Jan. 20, 1942 2,320,918 Fader June 1, 1943 2,496,600 Schaefer Feb. 7, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date `543,828 Great Britain Mar. 13, 1942 

